Letters to the Lady Upstairs. Lydia Davis
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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017
First published in the United States by New Directions in 2017
First published in France as Lettres à sa voisine by Éditions Gallimard in 2013
Translation and afterword copyright © 2017 by Lydia Davis
Proust letters and critical apparatus copyright © 2013 Éditions Gallimard
Published by arrangement with Éditions Gallimard.
4th Estate is grateful to Éditions Gallimard for providing the facsimiles and photographs, and for facilitating their use in this edition.
Fascimilies of Proust’s letters are courtesy of a private collection / Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, Paris
Photograph of Marie Williams courtesy of Gérard Emler collection
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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Source ISBN: 9780008262891
Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780008262884
Version: 2017-09-19
Contents
A note on the English-language edition
Floor plan of Proust’s apartment
Works and Characters of Proust
Selected Translations of Lydia Davis
The present collection forms a real novel in miniature, and is the result of a surprise